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Rh that she obtained the employment of adjutant and paymaster of the corps.

She wrote memoirs of her own times, which we believe were never printed; but Mrs. Thicknesse, who had seen them in MSS. speaks of them in the highest stile of encomium.

translated, from the English into French, many works, particularly the Seasons of Thomson, in a very superior manner. F.C.

the daughter of a gentleman of fortune; and, at the commencement of the reformation, escaped from her convent, in 1723, with eight other nuns, convinced, by the writings of Luther, of the impropriety of monastic vows, and encouraged by Leonard Cope, senator of Torgaw. This proceeding was highly praised by Luther, who undertook their justification. She was then but twenty-six; and, the charms of youth, added to the extraordinary step she had taken, which made her many enemies, caused her to be censured, though without foundation, as having left her convent for a libertine life. Luther was hurt at this report, and thought of marrying her to Glacius, minister of Ortamunden; but she did not like Glacius, and Luther, though much older, married her himself.

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